Posted on 10/12/2025 4:50:28 AM PDT by Libloather
How?
And lost it in less than 10 years.
The new Republican majority, under Gingrich’s guidance, brought every item of the Contract with America to a vote in the House. With the exception of the term limits constitutional amendment, all parts of the Contract passed in the House.
Gingrich’s “Republican Revolution” permanently altered the political landscape, shifting the center of political gravity in Washington. Instead of behaving as battered housewives, GOP congressmen were increasingly apt to propose conservative solutions.
And everything they got done was undone by 2009.
Welfare reform? Gone. Billions going to illegals.
House post office and bank? Replaced by USAID.
Tax rate cuts? Back to 6 brackets.
Capital gains rate lowered? Back to 20% or more.
It’s taking Trump to get it back and he has a smaller margin.
And we didn't have Obamacare in 2009. Now we are not going to get rid of it. Even if Trump wants to do it.
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